Frito-Lay to close San Bernardino County warehouse, lay off 247 employees
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Frito-Lay, the snack company that makes Doritos and Cheetos, is laying off 247 employees and closing its facility in Rancho Cucamonga, the company confirmed Friday.The vast warehouse will shut down in June.
Frito-Lay announced last summer that manufacturing operations at the same location were coming to an end.The plant has been a major employer in the area since opening in 1970, staffing thousands over its 55-year run.The Plano, Texas-based snack maker filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN notice, on Feb.
10.Business More than five decades of snack food production came to an end when Frito-Lay closed manufacturing operations at its Rancho Cucamonga facility, eliminating hundreds of jobs in the process.“We will be shifting these operations to a new distribution center in the local community to better serve our customers and consumers,” the company said in a statement to The Times.
“We are committed to treating impacted employees with the utmost care.”Frito-Lay, owned by PepsiCo Foods, said the affected employees will be given pay and benefits continuation as well as career support.The facility in Rancho Cucamonga opened in 1970 on Archibald Avenue.
The company introduced its popular Flamin’ Hot Cheetos in 1990.Richard Montañez, a former Frito-Lay employee, claimed for years that he invented the spicy snack, but an investigation by The Times in 2021 found he was not the actual creator.
Business Richard Montañez has for years told a story of how he dreamed up Flamin’ Hot Cheetos while working as a Frito-Lay janitor.The archival record, former employees and Frito-Lay itself say otherwise.Frito-Lay operates more than 30 manufacturing facilities across the U.S.
and Canada and more than 200 distribution centers.It employees about 60,000 people in North America.
The company also has supply centers in Torrance and near Buena Park.Its paren...